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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American environmental activist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is an author, businessperson, former US Senator and former journalist. In 2007, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Gore also starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award in 2007 and wrote the book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009. Gore was involved in American politics for 24 years, serving first in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and later in the U. S. Senate (1985–93) (representing Tennessee) before becoming vice president. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 presidential election. He won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, but ultimately lost the electoral college to Republican candidate George W. Bush when the legal controversy over the Florida election recount was eventually settled in the U.S. Supreme Court by a 5–4 margin in favor of Bush. Gore is the recipient of a number of awards. He and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore received a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV in 2007, and a Webby Award in 2005. Time named Gore as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year. He is currently the founder and chair of Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior advisor to Google. He is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. In addition, Gore is on the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University as a visiting professor, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  cnbc.com unknown Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:36:22 GM Oil prices surged yesterday, ostensibly, if media accounts are to be believed (they're not) on news that sales of existing homes in the US increased for a third straight month. We will be honest we had no idea it required so much crude ...  treehugger.com unknown Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:30:00 GM Photo via Newsday . Al Gore. recently called on people everywhere to do as the Britons did in WWII and stand up to the Nazis. Or was it climate change? Or both? It's a little hard to say judging from.  ihatethemedia.com Editor Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:00:08 GM Al Gore. and Prince Charles, the world's two leading global warming hypocrites have squared off about how much time is left before we're all burned to a crisp by global warming. From Google Blog Search: "al gore"  news.google.com Village News Network That also goes for all businesses in America. This will make Al Gore a very rich, rich, rich man into the trillions on the backs of the very poor in America. Fiscal stimulus: Obama has fed the federal beast, at states' expense Business Day all 242 news articles » news.google.com Mother Nature Network Extreme right wing commentator Patrick Buchanan thinks global warming is a hoax and that Al Gore is like the Birthers. This is a couple of days old but ... news.google.com Reuters By GreenBiz Staff - GreenBiz Staff When Al Gore , T. Boone Pickens, Steve Chu, Van Jones and Wesley Clark hit town next week for the National Clean Energy ... and more » From Google News Search: "al gore"  bitsblog.florack.us 219px x 166px | 8.00kB [source page] George Soros d b a Think Progress has his knickers is a twist because Fox dared to suggest that Al Gore has done little for world peace So what has Gore ever done to promote world  thatsfunny.org 480px x 640px | 176.80kB [source page] Al Gore for Mastercard  monstersandcritics.com 294px x 500px | 85.90kB [source page] Former Vice President Al Gore has written to supporters saying he will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a speech in Detroit tonight From Yahoo Image Search: "al gore" Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (born 31 March 1948) is an American politician and social activist. The son of Albert Gore and the husband of Tipper Gore, he was the 45th Vice President of the United States of America and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
